HWiNFO 8.00 adds a new FPS and system statistics overlay
HWiNFO 8.00 introduces a new OSD feature, enabling users to monitor FPS along with system statistics including CPU and GPU temperatures, RAM usage, and more.
AIDA64 Extreme diagnostics tool improves GPU monitoring
AIDA64 Extreme 7.20 features a revamped UI with a configurable toolbar, three new dark modes, and enhanced sensor monitoring for RTX 3000 and RTX 4000 GPUs, among other improvements.
ReShade 6.0 adds ray tracing and mesh shading APIs, RTX Remix support
ReShade is a free program designed to enhance the graphics of games and videos. The latest version introduces APIs for ray tracing and mesh shading, creating even more immersive environments.
CoreDirector lets you take full control of P-cores and E-cores on your Intel CPU
CoreDirector allows you to control which processes and applications run on P-cores and which run on E-cores. CoreDirector is a free application, compatible with any 12th-gen Intel CPU and above.
MS PowerToys adds Crop and Lock, improves FancyZones
PowerToys keep getting improvements with the addition of "Crop And Lock," a tool that allows you to crop an application window to a smaller size and continue working. Other utilities like FancyZones, Keyboard Manager, and Peek have been updated, too.
How to Use Intel PresentMon for Benchmarking and Testing
Intel's long-running game performance analyzer has been updated with a fresh look and new features. Is it worth using? Let's dive in and see how we can use PresentMon to analyze our gaming PCs.
PowerToys get new Peek and 'Mouse without Borders' utilities
PowerToys introduces "Mouse without Borders" which allows you to control multiple computers with one mouse and keyboard, share the clipboard and files. Peek, a file preview utility, has also been added.
New PowerToys release adds OCR utility, two more tools
Screen Ruler, Quick Accent and the anticipated Text Extractor to copy text from an image using OCR are the new utilities found on Microsoft PowerToys version 0.62.0. Free to download here.
Microsoft's new PowerToys OCR tool will make copying text from images possible
Dedicated OCR tool comes to Windows
Native CD ripping returns to Windows 11 in latest Insider build
Microsoft's latest update to the Dev Channel focuses on fixes, the Media Player and Camera app
Samsung SSD Magician lets you check drive's health and update your SSD firmware
Samsung SSD Magician is a management tool to check your Samsung's drive health, execute secure erasing, get TBW lifetime writes left, perform firmware updates, and more.
The Best Portable Apps for Your Software Toolbox
Portable apps usually offer the same functionality as the regular versions of your favorite software, but without any installers involved. That means you can run them directly from a USB drive or a cloud folder synced across PCs.
New PowerToys collection include a variety of tools to tune up your Windows experience
The new Microsoft PowerToys include a variety of utilities like "Awake" to ensure your PC does not go to sleep, a universal color picker, and "Run" a Spotlight-like search utility.
Use Prime95 to stress test your CPU
Prime95 has been a popular utility for CPU stress testing for as long as we can remember, it will shoot up all cores by searching for Mersenne primes using low-level code.
How to Make Windows 11 Look and Feel More Like Windows 10
If you've made the jump to Windows 11, chances are you won't like some of the changes made to the Taskbar, Start Menu, and File Explorer. However you can fix many of these with a few tweaks and tools.
Visualize your CPU's temperature with Core Temp
Core Temp shows the temperature of each individual core of the CPU(s) in your system, allowing you to monitor fluctuations in real time according to different workloads.
Keep your OCD in check with Bulk Rename Utility
If you're looking to organize all your files, Bulk Rename Utility is an extremely capable free program that is worth a look. Set the criteria and rename files and/or folders with ease.
ClockTuner 2.0 is out, adds Ryzen 5000 support
ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) is a well-rounded overclocking tool with a monitoring system that promises protection and compatibility with all AM4 motherboards.
NY power plant cuts out the middleman by mining its own Bitcoin, at a rate of $50K per day
Nearly 87 percent of all bitcoins have already been issued
Microsoft releases preview of rebooted PowerToys for Windows 10
The nostalgic PowerToys have returned
Microsoft revives Windows PowerToys as an open-source project
So far 12 tools are planned, but devs are asking for suggestions and outside contributions
10+ Tools for Finding and Deleting Duplicate Files on Windows
We've covered many ways that you can save space on your storage drives over the years and deleting duplicate files on your system could easily result in a sizable clean out if only a few large files are found. Although Windows doesn't provide a direct solution, there are many apps that can help, so here's a quick look at them.
Essential Apps You Should Install on a New PC Running Windows or macOS
You just bought a new laptop, built a new desktop PC, or are simply clean installing on a new SSD, good for you! Gotta love the taste of a fresh new machine, but now you have to get back to productivity zen by recovering your files and installing programs. Not sure which ones? Well, let us help.
What Are the Best CCleaner Alternatives?
For a long time CCleaner has been the most popular system-cleaning tool for Windows, extending its reach to other platforms like macOS and Android phones. However since security giant Avast acquired it last year, it's been a stormy ride that's had many doubting how effective or trustworthy the tool really is. Let's take a look at some alternatives.
12 Windows Clipboard Managers Tested
Clipboard managers make it much easier to re-enter text or anything else that you've recently copied and pasted, adding an array of new capabilities to the default Windows clipboard. Although they differ in specific features, the typical clipboard manager automatically saves text, images and other items as they are copied to your clipboard, displaying them in a list-style GUI that makes it simple to re-copy or paste something later.
